Re: Moral rights in corrigenda

From: Charles Oppenheim <C.Oppenheim_at_LBORO.AC.UK>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:15:38 +0000

Even if there were in theory Moral Rights in corrigenda from referees
(which I very much doubt), custom and practice tells us there are none -
for if there were, then those referees would be claiming them already. The
names of the referees are usually unknown to the author, so how could a
referee assert moral rights without his/her identity being revealed?

In a nutshell, anonymous refereeing and moral rights are incompatible with
one another.

Charles

Professor Charles Oppenheim
Dept of Information Science
Loughborough University
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Received on Mon Feb 25 2002 - 09:28:00 GMT